“Study: Teen Sex Doesn’t Affect School Performance”
That’s the headline this week reporting on the results of a joint study by researchers from the Universities of California and Minnesota. You can read the article on FOXNEWS.com here.
This bothers me on many levels: As a father. As a Christian. As an engineer/statistician.
This headline “greenlights” teen sex, in [...]
DEFENSE…
In football it means preventing the other team from scoring and getting the ball back. Same in many other sports, and in many non-sport endeavors.
But, when I think of “defense” in terms of the moral impurities in this world I don’t think of sports. I think: COLD WAR.
You see, I was a Cold War sailor, [...]
NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s standard for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Impure. Impurity.
We all know we are sinful. So, when we talk about impurity we often just chalk it up to not being “sinless”? If we’re not yet [...]
Over the years I’ve heard a lot of “support” for pornography:
“I’m not really cheating.”
“I’m only looking.”
“It’s a substitute until I get married (or while we deal with issues).”
I haven’t seen “THOU SHALT NOT VIEW PORN!” in the Bible.
Recent surveys show that more and more Americans, even Evangelicals, find nothing wrong with viewing pornography. With [...]
That’s the answer to the question:
“Why should I install parental controls and filters?
How bad can it be?”
When I talk about what I do, helping parents keep kids outta pornography on the Internet, I often get the following responses:
“C’mon, we had porn in our day, and it didn’t hurt us!”
“Aren’t you being a little too protective?”
Now, [...]
Every day I have at least one struggle with the temptation of sinful lust!
Many tempting things can trigger this inner battle:
A woman dressed in a revealing or provocative manner.
A woman acting “flirty” or affectionate in public.
Messages on T-shirts, shorts, and bumper stickers
Billboards
Certain songs
TV shows
Commercials
Movies
Internet ads
Suggestive or revealing pictures in the news, and in articles [...]
A friend of mine “video called” their daughter, who was at college, via the computer recently. She was surprised when her daughter’s web cam came on without the daughter taking any action! In fact, her daughter didn’t event appear to be home!
Scary!
But, what about the scandal in Philadelphia in which built-in webcams on school-issued laptops [...]
Parents wanting to protect their children from undesirable material on the Internet used to have a fairly easy task:
Install filtering software on the computer!
In 2010 that is simply not enough. Why?
Because access to the Internet is no longer limited to the PC/Mac but now includes the following devices:
Media devices, such as the iPod Touch
Sony PlayStation [...]
NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other posts on “sexting”: Part I and Part II
Technology gives our children the power to do great things, [...]
PART II of a 2-part series on SEXTING
PART I discussed legal issues
PART II discusses moral and developmental issues
Let’s face it, when you are dating, even in middle school, you are on a voyage of discovery. Ideally, you are discovering:
• What is “out there”.
• What you like, and dislike, in the opposite sex.
• How to navigate [...]
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